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Province Steps Against Online Casino

The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) has had a bit of an about-face recently concerning the spread of online casino gambling throughout the region. Anti-gambling sentiments have been pretty high over the past several months and the one firm that had permission to operate in the region, the Meridien Vista Gaming Corporation was recently informed that it had to stop all gaming related activities. This revocation of the company’s ability to operate online casino gambling related activities doesn’t come as too much of a surprise since this is the direction the situation has been headed in for months. Even so though, it surely comes as unwelcome news to Meridien, which was allowed to set up shop in the CEZA several years ago.

Most specifically, online casinos are not allowed in the CEZ region, but Meridien was given express permission to implement jai-alai betting kiosks in the province. That too is now apparently now longer allowed since Meridien was told to shut down all online casino and internet gaming related services in the CEZ. This is not only the largest province in the Philippines, but the only one that allowed internet gambling related activities. The MVGC president got wind of the operations and ordered that all so-called “controversial operations” cease their business in the CEZ.

Meridien and the companies organizing betting and online gaming activities in the Zone insist that they were operating within the law and within the permissions initially granted by the CEZA when Meridien established operations in the province.